This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

This interactive museum preserves the big aviation history of this small Missouri town

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.